lines = 'University Tuition Median_Salary Wake_Forest 71 108 Emory 81 121 SMU 81 122 Georgetown 83 147 USC 86 155 Vanderbilt 87 128 NYU 89 170 Cornell 92 168 Yale 93 160 Duke 93 148 Dartmouth 94 205 Northwestern 96 165 MIT 96 190 Chicago 97 210 Carnegie_Mellon 98 145 Columbia 99 182' con = textConnection( lines ) DF = read.table( con, header=TRUE ) close(con)